The genre of my game is hack and slash and I’m making a system to lure the enemy to me with “Cable”. I tried several ways but most of the time it didn’t work out the way I wanted (for example the Nero character in DmC5 or the cable thrown for movement in Naraka).
I would appreciate it if you could briefly explain the logic. Thank you. 
Perhaps you could produce a visual reference to the cable luring mechanics. A YT link is worth descriptive 10 posts.
https://youtu.be/ysU-8kIHQFo?t=1046 like this.
So… we just pull them towards us? When you say Cable, are you referring to the UE’s cable component specifically? Because that’d be just a visual thing, the pulling is something that happens under the hood.
I don’t know if it will only work visually, but the idea I have in my mind is like this: a cable will be thrown and if it hits the enemy in the location where it is thrown, it will pull the enemy to my side. If there is a different method, I would appreciate it if you share it with me.
I mean, the visual aspect is up to you, the mechanics will (and probably should) be completely separate from the visual. It’s always smoke and mirrors if you want both - things to feel & look right.
Two methods come to mind when working with characters that could work well for this:
- Launch the hit character in your direction, more funky, less predictable, more physical
- create a spline and slide the target towards you over time - more rigid behaviour with plenty of control. This will also work well for any object you may want to pull.
There’s probably more methods / hybrids of the above.
You could also experiment with something much simpler by directly setting velocity of the target character movement component:
With some extra tweaks, this could work well enough. Again, depends on how feature-rich this needs to be and how it must perform.
I appreciate your example and your response. I will try as soon as possible. In this example a system is installed with mouse but, I will try it with sphere trace. Thanks for the idea.
Yes, as I said, I think I solve this with Sphere Trace. The first attempt gave results and it gave me an idea of what to do in logic. Thank you again. 
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